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Every insider buy, activist stake and government deal is filed publicly. InsideEdge reads it all and tells you which filings matter, in plain language.
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The signal
The signal is public.
Reading it in time isn’t.
US law forces the best-informed buyers in any stock to disclose, on a deadline. Three filing types carry nearly all of it.
Form 4 — insiders’ own trades Filed within two days of the trade; we split real conviction from routine plan sales.
13D/G — 5% owners A fund crossing the threshold is public days before anyone talks about it. That’s the Avis trade.
8-K — strategic stakes Defense deals and government equity, surfaced beside the insider tape — not buried in press releases.
The scanner
Filed at 4:07.
On your screen by 4:19.
The scanner watches EDGAR’s feed continuously. Every Form 4 is parsed, price-checked and plan-flagged within minutes of acceptance — then it’s a row on your tape, not a PDF in a queue.
Explore the filing tapeThe method
Scan. Screen. Explain.
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Scan everything
Every US filer, from mega-cap to micro-cap — Form 4, 13D/G and 8-K, as EDGAR publishes them. No curation upstream.
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Screen against context
Twelve rules — cluster buys, float, short interest, price action, plan status. Most filings are noise; the rules exist to say so.
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Explain in plain language
Whatever clears the screen gets a brief: who bought, why it’s unusual, what the context is. The decision stays yours.
Small-cap insurer at 3.6× earnings sees an insider buying cluster; thin coverage warrants caution.
Small-cap insurer at 3.6× earnings sees a $1.9M insider buy.
Sowell bought ~$1.9M in two tranches over 48 hours, his first purchases in 12 months. Four analysts cover the name; the last three quarters beat by 9–40%.
Sowell bought ~$1.9M in two tranches over 48 hours, his first purchases in 12 months.
Cleared on: first buy in 12mo · large buy · net buying 90d
confidence · medium
The score
Twelve rules.
One number.
Every rule reads a filing differently. Pick one to see what it looks for.
▸ today’s three candidates, placed on the scale
▸ three different insiders, one two-week window
▸ sized against each filer’s own history, not a fixed bar
Free float
38M sh
tight — every open-market buy moves it
Short interest
22% of float
crowded the other way
▸ the setups where disclosed buying has room to matter
▸ insiders buying while the chart says panic
▸ a 5% owner adding while insiders buy the same tape — the Avis pattern
Each rule a filing clears adds weight. The score isn't a prediction — it's a rank of how unusual the buying is, so your attention goes to the top of the list first.
One insider buying can be routine. Three in the same window rarely is — the strongest single signal in the record.
A CEO or CFO spending serious personal cash on the open market — sized against their own buying history, not a fixed bar.
Tight float plus heavy short interest — the setups where disclosed buying has the most room to matter.
Insiders stepping in near the 52-week low, into drawdown — buying while the chart says panic.
A 5% owner accumulating while insiders buy the same tape. Two disclosures, one direction — the Avis pattern.
The network
Follow the filers,
not just the filings.
The same funds and directors appear around the same stocks, years apart. The network graph joins every filer to every position we’ve seen them in — so a “new” 13G is never actually new to you.
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